Unleashing Entrepreneurship and Innovation : What do Indian Startups Need to Grow

Unleashing Entrepreneurship and Innovation : What do Indian Startups Need to Grow and Prosper

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Panel Discussio and QnA session on 'Unleashing Entrepreneurship and Innovation : What do Indian Startups Need to Grow and Prosper'

Speakers :

- Venk Shukla President, TiE
- Varsha Rao Entrepreneur and Head of Ops, AirBnb
- Kunal Bahl Founder, Snapdeal
- Vinod Dham Founder, Indo-US ventures
- Bhavish Aggarwal Founder & CEO, OLA
- Dilip Chabria Founder, Team Indus

Moderator :

Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, Quality Council India & Ex-Partner McKinsey

Speakers

V Shukla

@vshukl

Currently President of TiE Silicon Valley and General Partner of Monta Vista Capital; Formerly CEO Nusym Technology, Sr VP Magma Design, CEO of Everypath, Inc

California

Varsha Rao

https://www.airbnb.com/

Varsha Rao is the Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, based in San Francisco. She founded Eve.com, the leading ecommerce retailer for beauty and accessories. Eve.com was sold to Idealab in early 2000 for $110M. In 1999, Fortune Magazine named Eve.com as the 6th Best e-commerce site.

Kunal Bahl

@1kunalbahl

Creating impact for India through technology.

New Delhi, India

Vinod Dham

http://www.iuvp.com/

Vinod is a Founding Managing Director at IndoUS Venture Partners (IUVP), based in Santa Clara, USA. Prior to founding IndoUS Venture Partners, Vin got his initial exposure to India by managing a cross border incubator, NewPath Ventures LLC, that leveraged India's high-skilled, low-cost talent as R & D for US based start-ups.

Bhavish Aggarwal

@bhash

Ola!

Bengaluru
Olacabs.com

Dilip Chabria

http://www.teamindus.in/

As a Co-Founder and Marketing Lead at Team Indus Dilip is responsible for Corporate relations & creating a Brand that reaches out and engages many in ways never done before.

Bangalore

Adil Zainulbhai

@AdilZainulbhai

Chairman QCI and co editor ReImagining India

Mumbai | India

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Event Updates

5th Session at #StartupIndia will be abt 'Unleashing Entrepreneurship and Innovation : What do Indian Startups Need to Grow and Prosper'
— eChai Ventures (@eChaiVentures) January 16, 2016

Speakers for 5th Session at #StartupIndia: @vshukl @varsharao @1kunalbahl @vinoddham @bhash Dilip Chabria fm @TeamIndus @AdilZainulbhai
— eChai Ventures (@eChaiVentures) January 16, 2016

Panel 3: Unleashing Entrepreneurship and Innovation : What do Indian Startups Need to Grow and Prosper #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Panel 3: TiE, AirBnB, Snapdeal, Ola, Indo-US Ventures, Team Indus #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Moderator: Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, Quality Council India – don’t ask this panel for money, that’s another panel! #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Bhavish Aggarwal Founder & CEO, OLA: The challenge we face is in talent – takes bandwidth and time to get and build #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Kunal Bahl Founder, Snapdeal: When we started there were only 4-5 VCs in India #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Kunal Bahl, Founder, #Snapdeal: Founder tip: build a great initial team, they will drive your success #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Kunal Bahl, Founder, #Snapdeal: We want to create 1M successful entrepreneurs in India in the next few years #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Venk Shukla, President, TiE Silicon Valley startups are like redwood trees, Indian startups are like banyan trees. Need focus! #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Venk: Many Indian founders tend to do whatever customer asks them to do, instead of staying focused on 1 product/feature #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Varsha Rao, Head of Ops, AirBnb: Meet your customers week to week, day to day to find out their problems and how they change #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Vinod Dham, Founder, Indo-US ventures: Be willing to learn from your customer, they can teach you a lot #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Dilip Chabria, Team Indus: People we interviewed actually interviewed us to see if we were serious about getting to the moon! #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Dilip Chabria Founder, Team Indus: Our motto: aspire, believe, create! #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Dilip Chabria Founder, Team Indus: Q: Why is there negativity about hardware startups in India? #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Vinod Dham: There is a wave of unicorn fever in India – if you aren’t in those sectors, investors won’t talk to you! #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Vinod Dham, Founder, Indo-US ventures: There is more hype than reality in the wearables sector now #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Kunal Bahl: Get early insights from friends and family, eg Tier 2 said they don’t get good selection #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Bhavish Aggarwal Founder & CEO, OLA: The more customer insights you have, the more your product can grow and improve #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Varsha Rao, Head of Ops, AirBnb: Get 100 customers you love rather than 1M customers who only like you #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

What's the real problem you're going to solve; start from there and build backwards - @1kunalbahl #StartupIndia pic.twitter.com/GoHfqIPfnN
— FICCI (@ficci_india) January 16, 2016

#StartupIndia pic.twitter.com/11NSFTMBF4
— NDTV (@ndtv) January 16, 2016

Varsha Rao, Head of Ops, AirBnb: India is a huge travel market, we are looking to localise and learn #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Venk Shukla, TiE: Expanding only for revenue is like a drug. Stay focused on doing what you do best, better than anyone else #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Kunal Bahl: Competition helps you stay on your toes and learn from your mistakes #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Kunal Bahl: Economic incentives are not enough to retain the best employees – it’s about culture and team spirit #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Vinod Dham, Founder, Indo-US ventures: Camaraderie and an inspiring goal is the best way to keep to your team #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Varsha Rao, Head of Ops, AirBnb: Focus on culture and core values; that cohesion helped us grow faster than others #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Dilip/Team Indus: We received good support from Indian gov, iSpirt; we are just private players in a predominantly gov game #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Varsha Rao, Head of Ops, AirBnb: We are about real identities backed by social media, difficult for startups from earlier eras #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

Bhavish/Ola: Trust and safety are key for our industry, we have to keep improving tech, design, compliance #StartupIndia
— Madanmohan Rao (@MadanRao) January 16, 2016

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